Look for pictures that reflect how you think each character looks. These can be current or past movie stars, current or past actors and/or actresses, or pictures you draw that reflect the images of the characters.
Create a collage with these pictures, putting the character's name under his or her picture. You may decide what materials to use for your collage. THE COLLAGE MAY NOT BE BIGGER THAN A 12 X 18 SHEET OF PAPER. These will NOT be posted on the WIKI.
Be creative! Have fun with this assignment. It will be interesting to see how everyone pictures each character.
Due date: Wednesday, November 17.
November 11,2010 Starting collage.
November 2, 2010 Setting The setting of this book is one week in 1939/1940 on a little island off the Devon coast called Indian Island. Chapter 1
Ten strangers of different backgrounds, are invited or tricked into spending a week at a mansion on Indian Island, which is off the coast of Devon.
All of the guests received an invitation by letter from either Una Nacy Owen or U. N., someone unfamiliar to them.
Chapter 2
When the guests get to the house, on the island, they are told by the bulter that their hosts, Mr. and Mrs. U. N. Owen, are away.
Vera, in examining her room, found the nursery rhyme, Ten Little Idians, hanging on the wall, which seemed to foreshadow the coming events.
As the guests get to know eachother, they also begin to find one another peculiar.
Chapter 3
After a very good dinner, the guests are startled by an unknown voice which proceeds to charge them with a list of indictments, one murder for each guest.
The guests spent the rest of the evening half on shock, denying charges against them with indignance and discussing how they came to be invited to this house on Indian Island.
Chapter 4
Each of the guests, except Miss Brent, go into more detail about the death which they have been charged and explained their innocence.
The fourth chapter wraps up with Anthony Marston finishing his whiskey and soda with a gulp, choking, and sliding off his chair, apparently unconscious.
Chapter 5
Anthony Marston is found not only to be unconscious, but also dead.
The guests go to bed after fearing that Marston is dead, each re-examining the details of the death with which they have been charged.
Chapter 6
The eight remaining guests are trying to figure out how Mrs. Roger died.
Mr. Roger notices that on the day before there had been ten little china figures, and now, after the two deaths of Anthony Marston and Mrs. Roger, there are only eight.
Way to go, Emma. Looks like you have the main events in the first six chapters! Mrs. M
November 4, 2010 Chapter 7
The deaths of Mrs. Rogers and Anthony Marston could have been suicides but they happened too close together.
No motor boat came that morning and the guests are now isolated on Indian Island.
Mr. Armstrong, Mr Lombard, and Mr. Blore decide to investigate and get to the bottom of the murders.
Chapter 8
Blore, Armstrong, and Lombard searched the island and the house and found no one.
Staring into the sky General Macarthur believed they were all waiting for the end of their lives on this Island.
A storm was coming,the eight stranded guests seemed to be alone on the island.
Chapter 9
General Macarthur is found dead, murdered and now there are only seven guests and mysteriously, only seven china figures.
Mr. Justice Wargrave figures out that U.N.Owen, the murderer, must be one of the seven surviving guests, but which one.
Everyone is on guard and they realize they are being punished for their crimes.
Chapter 10
The storm grew worse, no boat could get to the island, and Mr Rogers notices that the bathroom curtain is missing.
Emily Brent writes in a book that Beatrice Taylor is the murderer but then as though in a trance does not remember writing this.
All the guests are nervous and they eventually go their bedrooms and lock their doors.
Chapter 11
The guests wake to a windy morning and find six china figures in the middle of the table.
They discover Mr. Rogers murdered by an axe to his head and realize that anyone of them could have done it.
Chapter 12
Emily Brent heard a buzzing noise, noticed a bee on the window-pane, and then heard water dripping and footsteps behind her, concluding it was "Beatrice Taylor coming from the river".
Emily Brent felt the prick of the bee sting in the side of her neck and died.
The doctor said that Emily Brent hadn't been stung, but that someone injected her with a syringe.
Chapter 13
The five remaining guests devised a plan that only one person was allowed out of the room at a time so no one else would get killed without someone seeing it happen.
Having retired to her bedroom, Vera screamed, thinking someone had grabed her by the throat, and the other guests, quickly came to her rescue.
Upon returning to the drawing-room, the guests were shocked to find Mr. Justice Wargrave shot, dead, and mockingly dressed as a judge, in a wig and shower curtain.
Chapter 14
The remaining four guests went to bed, locked their doors, and barricaded themselves in their rooms until morning, Lombard found the missing revolver in his table drawer, and Vera noticed a big black hook hanging in the middle of the ceiling.
Blore believes that he hears something outside his bedroom door and desides to investigate only to find that a person just slipped out the front door.
Blore and Lombard search for Armstrong and find nothing except that "a pane in the dining-room window has been smashed" and that "there are only three little Indian boys on the table".
November 8, 2010 Chapter 15
The mentle piece from Vera's room, a bear shaped block of white marble, killed Mr. Blore.
Lombard and Vera find Armstrong wedged between two rocks with a purple face that had been drowned.
Chapter 16
Vera had taken Lombard's revolver, then shot him and killed him.
Vera then enters her room and gasps, seeing a rope with a noose and a chair placed beneath it.
Claythorne climbed up on the chair, adjusted the noose around her neck and kicked the chair away, killing herself.
ASSIGNMENT #6!!!
FINISH THE PLOT LINE - ADD TWO OR THREE EVENTS FOR THE MANUSCRIPT AND THE EPILOGUE!
IDENTIFY THE EVENT THAT YOU THINK IS THE CLIMAX!
DUE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15.
(THIS IS JUST A DRAFT!!!) Epilogue
All the characters are dead, and people start to investigate Indian Island.
Sir Thomas Legge, Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard and Inspector Maine look at and why all the people die on Indian Island.
The
Manuscript
The
The
Lawrence Wargrave...
??? Looks like you forgot to finish this - everything else is done well. Mrs. M Individual Assignment #4: Chapters 1-6 Due Wednesday, November 3
Put a new line between assignments #3 and #4.
Put your answer ABOVE the previous assignment.
Copy this assignment to your page.
Add the date above this assignment.
[[here#|Start]] a plot line. Identify the setting first.
Add two or three key events from each chapter that we have read - chapters 1-6 – reflecting on the rising action.
Identify each chapter and put the two or three events as [[here#|complete]] sentences under the chapter number.
For example:
Setting Time and Place Chapter 1 · The characters arrive at Sticklehaven off the coast of Devon, intent on traveling to Indian Island, which has been in the news lately because it is surrounded by mystery. · The main characters wonder about the people they meet, and are excited at the chance to spend a week at this luxurious island.
Chapter 2 Two or three bulleted sentences explaining your events.
October 27, 2010
Mr. Justice Wargrave
Mr. Wargrave asked questions about everyone and their backgrounds, but he never gave anyone information about himself.
Mr. Wargrave speaks with authority and acts as if he is charge of the group of guests.
Mr. Thomas Rogers
Mr. Rogers was asked to play the gramophone by Mr. Owen, but does not know why.
No one really believes Mr. Rogers when he tries to explain the reason for putting the record in the gramophone.
Mr. William Henry Blore
Mr. Blore tells the guests that he is not from South Africa, but an ex-CID; and runs a detective agency in Plymouth.
He knows that Ulick Norman Owen and Una Nancy Owen make U. N. Owen; and if said faster, it can be UNKNOWN.
Vera Claythorne
Vera hates the sound of the sea murmuring against the rocks.
Vera thought it odd that elderly people always get names wrong.
Philip Lombard
Lombard was the first to move, leaping toward the door at the sound of Mrs. Rogers scream, which was closely followed by a thud.
Lombard had been to Natal, South Africa and knew that Blore was lying about where he came from.
Wow! Another VERY well done assignment! You've made some interesting observations about the guests chosen. Double check the UNKNOWN statement under Mr. Blore; was that Blore who said that or Judge Wargrave? Mrs. M
Assignment #3: Chapter 3 : Due Wednesday, October 27
Put a new line between assignments #2 and #3.
Copy the assignment to your page. (the red print)
Add the date at the top of your page.
Add your answers to the TOP of your page under the date.
Choose five characters from the story,
Write two sentences telling what you know about him or her.
BOLD the character's name and write your sentences about that character right underneath his or her name.
Example: · Vera Claythorne Sentence #1 about Vera Claythorne Sentence #2 about Vera Claythorne
October 20, 2010
Assignment #2 Due October 22
Put a line above Assignment #1; assignment #2 will go above assignment #1.
Read chapter two.
Choose one of the following: suspense or foreshadowing.
With your small group, find four examples of suspense OR foreshadowing in chapter two.
Each member of your group must write on his or her WIKI page the exact wording from the book - that means type the sentences exactly as they are written.
Then, in a well-written paragraph, explain why these sentences clearly show either suspense or foreshadowing.
Read chapter three for Monday, October 25.
Foreshadowing:
On page twenty-six. Queer business when you came to think of it - the whole thing was queer - very queer.... This sentence describes the thoughts of Fred Narracott, the boat pilot who ferried the guest to the island. He is thinking about what an odd group of guests have been brought together for a week at the island. They don't belong together. They are all different. What possible reason has brought them together? Based on the description of the characters and that they don't seem as if they will get along, it seems as if no good can come of their week together.
On page twenty-nine. Vera frowned. Eight people in the house - ten with the host and hostess - and only one married couple to do for them. This sentence describes Vera's thought as she waits for dinner. The situation isn't what she imagined based on the invitation which she had received. Something is beginning to seem strange to her. Here the author is creating the impression that Vera is becoming suspicious - of what we don't know just yet.
On page thirty. But Vera went over to the window and sat down on the window seat. She was faintly disturbed. Everything - somehow - was a little queer. This sentence describes Vera after her conversation with the maid. The maid had acted strangely. Vera also conclude the guests are unusual. This make Vera restless. Again we don't know why. These sentences add to our feeling that something bad is about to happen.
On page thirty-four. The judge said: " No host and hostess. Very curious state of affairs. Don't understand this place." This is a comment the judge makes to Dr. Armstrong, one of the guests, a man the judge had met before, and didn't like. The judge goes on to think about things that seem odd to him. Here the author is describing one more character who is becoming suspicious about the real reasons for the group being invited to the island.
Emma - Excellent job on this assignment. You've chosen good examples of foreshadowing and explained them well. Something is just ' not right'! That's what makes a great mystery. Mrs. M
October 19, 2010
how does a mystery novel differ from a narrative? (1)
how might the title be a clue to the story? (2)
1) A mystery novel differs from a narrative because a mystery novel is a novel in which the reader is challenged to solve a puzzle before the detective explains it at the end, and a narrative is a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious. 2) And Then There Where None gives me the clue that the book might involve people or things getting killed. The word "none" means to me that there is nothing left. It is gone. The word "and" means to me that there were once more than none. That there had been more thatn one person and that they most have gotten killed.
Emma - Good observations! I LOVE your student page; your graphics are beautifully done! Links are done correctly. Mrs. M
Emma A.2
INDIVIDUAL
November 11,2010 Starting collage.
November 2, 2010
Setting
The setting of this book is one week in 1939/1940 on a little island off the Devon coast called Indian Island.
Chapter 1
- Ten strangers of different backgrounds, are invited or tricked into spending a week at a mansion on Indian Island, which is off the coast of Devon.
- All of the guests received an invitation by letter from either Una Nacy Owen or U. N., someone unfamiliar to them.
Chapter 2- When the guests get to the house, on the island, they are told by the bulter that their hosts, Mr. and Mrs. U. N. Owen, are away.
- Vera, in examining her room, found the nursery rhyme, Ten Little Idians, hanging on the wall, which seemed to foreshadow the coming events.
- As the guests get to know eachother, they also begin to find one another peculiar.
Chapter 3- After a very good dinner, the guests are startled by an unknown voice which proceeds to charge them with a list of indictments, one murder for each guest.
- The guests spent the rest of the evening half on shock, denying charges against them with indignance and discussing how they came to be invited to this house on Indian Island.
Chapter 4- Each of the guests, except Miss Brent, go into more detail about the death which they have been charged and explained their innocence.
- The fourth chapter wraps up with Anthony Marston finishing his whiskey and soda with a gulp, choking, and sliding off his chair, apparently unconscious.
Chapter 5- Anthony Marston is found not only to be unconscious, but also dead.
- The guests go to bed after fearing that Marston is dead, each re-examining the details of the death with which they have been charged.
Chapter 6- The eight remaining guests are trying to figure out how Mrs. Roger died.
- Mr. Roger notices that on the day before there had been ten little china figures, and now, after the two deaths of Anthony Marston and Mrs. Roger, there are only eight.
Way to go, Emma. Looks like you have the main events in the first six chapters!Mrs. M
November 4, 2010
Chapter 7
- The deaths of Mrs. Rogers and Anthony Marston could have been suicides but they happened too close together.
- No motor boat came that morning and the guests are now isolated on Indian Island.
- Mr. Armstrong, Mr Lombard, and Mr. Blore decide to investigate and get to the bottom of the murders.
Chapter 8- Blore, Armstrong, and Lombard searched the island and the house and found no one.
- Staring into the sky General Macarthur believed they were all waiting for the end of their lives on this Island.
- A storm was coming,the eight stranded guests seemed to be alone on the island.
Chapter 9- General Macarthur is found dead, murdered and now there are only seven guests and mysteriously, only seven china figures.
- Mr. Justice Wargrave figures out that U.N.Owen, the murderer, must be one of the seven surviving guests, but which one.
- Everyone is on guard and they realize they are being punished for their crimes.
Chapter 10- The storm grew worse, no boat could get to the island, and Mr Rogers notices that the bathroom curtain is missing.
- Emily Brent writes in a book that Beatrice Taylor is the murderer but then as though in a trance does not remember writing this.
- All the guests are nervous and they eventually go their bedrooms and lock their doors.
Chapter 11- The guests wake to a windy morning and find six china figures in the middle of the table.
- They discover Mr. Rogers murdered by an axe to his head and realize that anyone of them could have done it.
Chapter 12- Emily Brent heard a buzzing noise, noticed a bee on the window-pane, and then heard water dripping and footsteps behind her, concluding it was "Beatrice Taylor coming from the river".
- Emily Brent felt the prick of the bee sting in the side of her neck and died.
- The doctor said that Emily Brent hadn't been stung, but that someone injected her with a syringe.
Chapter 13- The five remaining guests devised a plan that only one person was allowed out of the room at a time so no one else would get killed without someone seeing it happen.
- Having retired to her bedroom, Vera screamed, thinking someone had grabed her by the throat, and the other guests, quickly came to her rescue.
- Upon returning to the drawing-room, the guests were shocked to find Mr. Justice Wargrave shot, dead, and mockingly dressed as a judge, in a wig and shower curtain.
Chapter 14November 8, 2010
Chapter 15
- The mentle piece from Vera's room, a bear shaped block of white marble, killed Mr. Blore.
- Lombard and Vera find Armstrong wedged between two rocks with a purple face that had been drowned.
Chapter 16ASSIGNMENT #6!!!
- FINISH THE PLOT LINE - ADD TWO OR THREE EVENTS FOR THE MANUSCRIPT AND THE EPILOGUE!
- IDENTIFY THE EVENT THAT YOU THINK IS THE CLIMAX!
- DUE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15.
(THIS IS JUST A DRAFT!!!)Epilogue
- All the characters are dead, and people start to investigate Indian Island.
- Sir Thomas Legge, Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard and Inspector Maine look at and why all the people die on Indian Island.
- The
Manuscript- The
- The
- Lawrence Wargrave...
??? Looks like you forgot to finish this - everything else is done well.Mrs. M
Individual Assignment #4: Chapters 1-6 Due Wednesday, November 3
- Put a new line between assignments #3 and #4.
- Put your answer ABOVE the previous assignment.
- Copy this assignment to your page.
- Add the date above this assignment.
- [[here#|Start]] a plot line. Identify the setting first.
- Add two or three key events from each chapter that we have read - chapters 1-6 – reflecting on the rising action.
- Identify each chapter and put the two or three events as [[here#|complete]] sentences under the chapter number.
- For example:
SettingTime and Place
Chapter 1
· The characters arrive at Sticklehaven off the coast of Devon, intent on traveling to Indian Island, which has been in the news lately because it is surrounded by mystery.
· The main characters wonder about the people they meet, and are excited at the chance to spend a week at this luxurious island.
Chapter 2
Two or three bulleted sentences explaining your events.
October 27, 2010
- Mr. Justice Wargrave
- Mr. Wargrave asked questions about everyone and their backgrounds, but he never gave anyone information about himself.
- Mr. Wargrave speaks with authority and acts as if he is charge of the group of guests.
- Mr. Thomas Rogers
- Mr. Rogers was asked to play the gramophone by Mr. Owen, but does not know why.
- No one really believes Mr. Rogers when he tries to explain the reason for putting the record in the gramophone.
- Mr. William Henry Blore
- Mr. Blore tells the guests that he is not from South Africa, but an ex-CID; and runs a detective agency in Plymouth.
- He knows that Ulick Norman Owen and Una Nancy Owen make U. N. Owen; and if said faster, it can be UNKNOWN.
- Vera Claythorne
- Vera hates the sound of the sea murmuring against the rocks.
- Vera thought it odd that elderly people always get names wrong.
- Philip Lombard
- Lombard was the first to move, leaping toward the door at the sound of Mrs. Rogers scream, which was closely followed by a thud.
- Lombard had been to Natal, South Africa and knew that Blore was lying about where he came from.
Wow! Another VERY well done assignment! You've made some interesting observations about the guests chosen. Double check the UNKNOWN statement under Mr. Blore; was that Blore who said that or Judge Wargrave?Mrs. M
Assignment #3: Chapter 3 : Due Wednesday, October 27
- Put a new line between assignments #2 and #3.
- Copy the assignment to your page. (the red print)
- Add the date at the top of your page.
- Add your answers to the TOP of your page under the date.
- Choose five characters from the story,
- Write two sentences telling what you know about him or her.
- BOLD the character's name and write your sentences about that character right underneath his or her name.
Example:· Vera Claythorne
Sentence #1 about Vera Claythorne
Sentence #2 about Vera Claythorne
October 20, 2010
Assignment #2 Due October 22
Foreshadowing:
Emma - Excellent job on this assignment. You've chosen good examples of foreshadowing and explained them well. Something is just ' not right'! That's what makes a great mystery.
Mrs. M
October 19, 2010
how does a mystery novel differ from a narrative? (1)
how might the title be a clue to the story? (2)
1) A mystery novel differs from a narrative because a mystery novel is a novel in which the reader is challenged to solve a puzzle before the detective explains it at the end, and a narrative is a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
2) And Then There Where None gives me the clue that the book might involve people or things getting killed. The word "none" means to me that there is nothing left. It is gone. The word "and" means to me that there were once more than none. That there had been more thatn one person and that they most have gotten killed.
Emma - Good observations!
I LOVE your student page; your graphics are beautifully done!
Links are done correctly.
Mrs. M